Tóg go bog é

Take it easy · Tohg guh bug ay

Tóg go bog é means Take it easy, and is said Tohg guh bug ay.

Word for word

Taken literally it reads Take it softly. Irish often puts a sentence together differently from English, so the literal reading rarely matches the meaning.

How to say it

Say it Tohg guh bug ay, written the way an English speaker would read it.

When you’d say it

Bog means soft, so the advice is to go at a thing softly. Said to someone rushing, or losing the temper.

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• Dia duit: Hello
• Dia is Muire duit: Hello (in reply)
• Conas atá tú?: How are you?
• Tá mé go maith: I am well
• Go raibh maith agat: Thank you
• Le do thoil: Please

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